If you consider 'thinking linear' is NOT piling all the phenomena on the plate and pouring over a thick souse of vague definitions and misconceptions then, yes, I'm thinking linear.
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...Basic physics....
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If you want to talk physics you have to learn to isolate different affects and consider them in order of their importance and applicability.
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...Molecules lose energy often through heat. They lose energy by colliding with other molecules...
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...Not, the actual energy loss through absorption is small. I gave you the link...
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...Easy home experiment.
Get in the tub...
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Your water tub experiment is not what I was asking. What I was asking, in your 'rubber ducky' terms, is the following. Take your 4L pail lid and go sit in a small pond. Make waves. Notice the wave amplitude at, say 3m. Now do the same in the ocean. Will be the waves much different at 3m? I don't think so.
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...Collisions of air molecules occurs more often with active movement in the medium...
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This is not true. The collision frequency depends on the molecule size and their thermal velocity. The 'active movement' in the medium is usually sub-sonic, that is much slower than the molecules thermal velocity. Therefore, the collusions do not occur more often with 'active movement'.
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...Sound energy is dispersed in multiple directions and lost over the distance AND volume of the medium...
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How is that?
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...Volume is missing from this equation...
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What equation?
It's OK to admit that you don't know something. Just don't give a macho pseudo-science instead of a clear answer.
